Public doesn’t back aid spending any more, says minister

Becky Morton Political reporter Alexander: Public consent for aid spending has been withdrawn The public no longer backs spending on international aid, Trade Minister Douglas Alexander has suggested. The former international development secretary under Gordon Brown told BBC Radio 4’s Political Thinking with Nick Robinson that even if money was not tight, “the argument would…

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Is Fitbit still down? Tell us if you’re still being affected by Fitbit’s “major outage”

Refresh 2025-07-17T14:59:32.782Z Incident closed – for some… (Image credit: Future) Fitbit’s official status page is now reporting the incident as “closed”, indicating the fix is rolling out to users and the outage has ended, which lines up with those decreasing Downdetector reports. However, according to our email inbox and the reports on Reddit, many people…

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